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Dematerializing the City

Abstract

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The project is a local cultural center located in Gulou area in the old city center of Beijing, China. This urban intervention establishes a series of harmonious relationships between the city and the architecture, between the urban and the autonomous and between the old and the new . The pattern of the city's fabric, the local traditions, and the basic ways of life serve to guide the spatial organization and the development of architectural elements. The building is dematerialized. Paintings and diagrams are abstracted from the physical reality of the building. Drawings and models are made to further present the spatial orders and conditions. The containment of the architecure has always drawn as much attention from me as on the building itself. This thesis is more about searching for the intangible contained by physical elements.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Architecture
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Architecture
Department dc:contributor.department
Architecture
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2014

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Dong, Huijuan
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Thompson, Steven R.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Weiner, Frank H.
  • Dunay, Donna W.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:2043
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/25222

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citation

Dong, Huijuan. Dematerializing the City. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25222